Smoke Signals from Samarcand: The 1931 Reform School Fire and Its Aftermath

by Barbara Bennett

A case study and dramatic retelling of young girls on trial for arson at a reform school

In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls--all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, in Samarcand, North Carolina--were accused of burning down two campus buildings in protest against living conditions. Barbara Bennett offers not only a dramatic retelling of this historic case in Smoke Signals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611178606
• ISBN13: 9781611178609
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"